What a week it has been so far, and not a good one in my book as far as eating and exercising has gone. On Sunday I made country fried steak, fried okra, green beans, rice and gravy made with the pan drippings. Yeah, granted that is a lot of food and a lot of fried food, but I haven't made this since I started this journey over a year ago and I know that having it just once isn't going to kill my "diet" or weight loss. But then Monday rolls around....I hit the gym like I normally do, did a pretty good cardio workout and did my legs...good so far, right? Then I went to my therapy appointment and afterwards I was hungry for lunch...I should have just drove home and had lunch there, but no I stop at Chick-fil-a. I got the chicken strip salad, that alone isn't that bad but I used to much dressing and I had a coke instead of the water I should have had. But I could have just finished the day out well with a good healthy dinner, but did I? Nope, we called in Outback take-out...where I got a house salad and an order of cheese fries of my own and proceeded to eat almost all of it, ugh....what in the world was I thinking? But I let that go as well...but I came into a dilemma with Tuesday and getting my workout in. I had a meeting/class from 8:45 to 2:00 and I knew that I wasn't going to be able to go in the evening since I had a PTA meeting where my daughter was performing with her class...so I thought I would get up at 4:30 and hit the gym at 5 when it opens, yeah...that didn't pan out...but my husband didn't have to leave until after 7 since he had an appointment so I decided to at least get a run in, was shooting for about 45-50 mins, but only ended with 30 total with a cool down...all the crap that I had eaten really messed up my stomach, err! But at least I got something in, right? And the meeting was providing lunch of subway so I knew that I was okay there, then came dinner and I went overboard again...McDonald's: Big Mac, fries and a Coke...err!!! So yeah I'm showing a gain on the scale but the week isn't over yet and I'm back on my regular schedule with the gym and dinner is already planned and had my usual breakfast, so the week won't be a total loss...just gotta push forward. I am making a promise to myself that the rest of this week will be great...I will not go overboard on my eating and I will kick butt at the gym as I usually do....today has been great so far and I will continue to make it great!!!
So I had my weigh in today....I'm down 1.4 lbs for the week...it wasn't the 1.6-1.8 I was shooting for but I'm happy with it. It brings my weight loss down to a total of 88 lbs, that's only 2 lbs from 90 and puts me solidly in the mid 150's. I can definitely see me hitting my goal of being in the 140's by the time I go for my next Bod Pod test. So I'm still shooting for another 1.6-1.8 gone for next week. I'm still sticking with the higher calorie intake for the next week to see if what I'm doing is actually working or if it was just a fluke this week. One of my great surprises for the day came from my workout at the gym. I have had to put off doing squats and lunges due to some pain in my knee when I bent it at that angle, came from all my running (one of the reasons I backed off running so much). But since Tyler came home from his TDY and started back on swing shift I have been able to get to the gym without the kids in tow and get back to my w...
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